I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

I believe God is doing a new thing in the world. God is always moving us to include more people in the kingdom. God has taught us that about people of color, about women, and now I think God is teaching that about gay and lesbian folk. And I am humbled and privileged that I might be playing a very small part in that grand and wonderful plan of God's.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.